Evolution of a definition of nursing

A historical decline of educational perioperative clinical experiences

This historical study identifies sociocultural and economic influences that have contributed to the decline of educational perioperative clinical experiences. Three themes were identified: the professional versus the technical role of OR nurses debate, the nurse generalist versus the nurse specialist debate, and the relative lack of control that nursing has over its own destiny. Recommendations to reverse this trend include increasing the visibility of perioperative nurses to the public and within the profession of nursing, structuring efforts to capitalize on the changes occurring in nursing education, and promoting a stronger affiliation between nursing academia and practice settings.

[From experience to science: the evolution of nursing knowledge]

The aim of this paper is to show the evolution of the nursing knowledge. Some relations with the nursing history are proposed, in order to indicate the ways the people and ideas of today in nursing was influenced by the past. The authors make a correlation between the development of the nursing as profession and of the nurse as professional.

Said another way. What is the language of nursing?

Nursing is multidimensional, interactive, interdisciplinary, and complex. Almost anything that can be said about nursing can be said another way. Some things worth being said and heard will not follow the norms of journal presentation. A forum accommodates the emerging voice, the new format, the innovative approach. Nursing Forum, in an effort to honor the "independent voice" in nursing, presents here the voice who elects to enter the dialogue, but who does so "in another way."